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5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE CAKE
5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE (Bianca Finn)
A South African favourite ……….
This is the most dangerous cake recipe in the world? Because now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night
Ingredients:
4 tbsp. flour
4 tbsp. sugar
2 tbsp. cocoa
1 egg
3 tbsp. milk
3 tbsp. oil
A small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
Method:
Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again.
Put the mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts (high). The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don’t be alarmed! Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.
CARD TRICK – UNBELIEVABLE
James Galea made his USTV debut on the Helen DeGeneres Show and flabbergasted everybody
http://www.flixxy.com/australian-magician-james-galeas-unbelievable-trick.htm
CAPITAN
For the past 6 years, a dog named Capitán has slept on the grave of his owner every night. His owner, Miguel Guzmán died in 2006 and Capitán disappeared shortly after the family attended the funeral services. They searched everywhere and put out flyers to try and find him. But no one had seen him.
A week later, some people who were at the cemetery late one evening spotted Capitán laying on a grave and they contacted the grounds keeper at the cemetery. The cemetery notified the family who promptly came to pick him up and take him home. But each night he would cry and scratch frantically at the door to go out and he wouldn’t return home until morning. It was later discovered that Capitán would walk the 3 miles back to the cemetary each night to guard his master’s grave.
It has been nearly 7 years now. The cemetery does not close the gates until he arrives each night promptly at 6 pm. He sleeps there all night guarding the grave until the grounds keeper opens the gate in the morning.
PARROT’S GOT TALENT!
CHINESE OVERPASS
Forward-thinking engineers in China are the first in the country to have built a section of an enormous overpass and rotate it into place upon completion so as not to disturb the railways below. A 17,000 ton part of an elevated motorway was today slowly swung into place in Wuhan City after being constructed independently beside a high speed railway track. Engineers took 90 minutes to carefully swing the 17,000-ton structure into place today above a high speed railway track in Wuhan City, central China
A China Railway High-speed train passes beneath the rotating sector of the bridge today as engineers expertly swivel it into place
It was the first time the technique had been used in China, with engineers unable to temporarily halt the busy train service in order to build the bridge in place. Experts took 90 minutes to connect the section to the rest of the bridge, turning it 106 degrees on a 15 metre high axis. The country has the world’s longest high speed rail network with over 6,200 miles of routes in service in December 2012. The track beneath the bridge in Wuhan City was considered too important to be temporarily halted in order for engineers’ to complete construction. Once finished, the overpass will be 256m long and span 11 railways, including the 1,428 mile-long Beijing-Guangzhou service. Experts estimate the bridge will be open to traffic later this month.
The 17,000 structure is slowly brought into place in by engineers after weeks of construction. The unusual technique has been used in the UK in the past, though never before in China. The 17,000-ton structure was rotated at 106 degrees on a 15 metre axis.
The sector is connected to the rest of the bridge after 90 minutes. Officials estimate it will be open to traffic later this month A similar technique was used to construct the Grade I listed Kingsgate Bridge across the River Wear in Durham in 1968. Designed in 1963 by Sir Ove Arup, the bridge’s two halves were built on the river’s bank and swung together at 90 degrees. FOOTNOTE:
Compare the time normally taken for constructing bridges over railway lines in India with heavy railway movement – Bridge at Kurla station to connect Eastern Express to Western has taken more than 8 years!)
GEORGE – THE GREAT DANE
As told by Dave Nasser – his owner………
The first time we saw George, our beloved Great Dane, he was no more than a tiny, cowering ball of fuzzy fur. He tentatively pushed his little nose forward and gave Christie her first lick
Puppy love: A young George with Dave’s wife Christie.
Even as a pup he had comically large paws.
He came into our lives in January 2006
Magnificent: George measures more than 7 ft from nose to tail and weighs 18 stone and is the world’s biggest dog, but he’s terrified of Chihuahuas…
Paws for thought: George’s giant feet dwarf Dave’s hand
In the summer of 2006, we had to buy him his own queen-sized mattress. A male Great Dane typically weighs from 9 to 11 stone, but by Christmas 2007 George weighed 15 stone — bigger than most men.
With size comes problems: George the giant barely fits in the back Of his owner’s SUV
George loves dolls, especially a stuffed green one that plays a nursery rhyme when squeezed. Whenever he can, he places it between his paws and presses it so he can hear the tune. It is like a security blanket.
A doggone miracle: George the Great Dane with the Nasser’s daughter Annabel at home in Arizona
Christie applied to the Guinness World Records people on George’s behalf. That February, one of their adjudicators came to watch George being measured in the presence of a vet. He was officially declared not just the world’s tallest living dog (43 inches from paw to shoulder) but the tallest dog ever.
Man’s biggest friend: Devoted owner Dave Nasser with George.
George weighs 252 pounds!!!
GINGHAM DRESS
THE GINGHAM DRESS
A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston and walked timidly
without an appointment into the Harvard University President’s outer office.
The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard & probably didn’t even deserve to be in
Cambridge ..
“We’d like to see the president,” the man said softly.
“He’ll be busy all day,” the secretary snapped.
“We’ll wait,” the lady replied.
For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away.
They didn’t, and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted.
“Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they’ll leave,” she said to him!
He sighed in exasperation and nodded. Someone of his importance obviously didn’t have the time to spend with them, and he detested gingham dresses and homespun suits cluttering up his outer office.
The president, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple.
The lady told him, “We had a son who attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was
accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus.”
The president wasn’t touched. He was shocked. “Madam,” he said, gruffly, “we can’t put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died.
If we did, this place would look like a cemetery.”
“Oh, no,” the lady explained quickly. “We don’t want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard.”
The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, then exclaimed, “A building! Do you have any earthly
idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard.”
For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now.
The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, “Is that all it cost to start a university? Why don’t we just start our own? ” Her husband nodded.
The president’s face wilted in confusion and bewilderment.
Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the university that bears their
name, Stanford University , a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.
You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.
— A TRUE STORY By Malcolm Forbes
NEW 20-SEAT CONCORDE SUPERSONIC JET
Twice as fast as the old Concorde: The supersonic jet that will fly from London to New York in TWO HOURS.
SonicStar plane will have a top speed of Mach 3.6. Plans for 20-seatcraft were unveiled at Paris Air Show.
A jet that can fly from London to Sydney in five hours could rob Concorde of its title as the fastest-ever passenger plane.
Plans have been unveiled for the HyperMach SonicStar, a business jet which will be capable of a top speed
of 2,664 mph twice as fast as Concorde. It will fly at 62,000 ft, allowing passengers to see the curvature of the earth.
HyperMach chief executive Richard Lugg wants the plane in the skies within ten years and has already secured
funding from the Department of Trade and Industry, which has agreed to support the company in Britain.
Return of supersonic travel: The SonicStar aircraft will be twice as fast as Concorde – so quick that traveling from
London to New York will take just two hours. It was unveiledat the Paris Air Show.
Long-range cruise speed – Mach 3.1
High-speed cruise speed – Mach 3.4
Engines – Two SonicBlue S-MAGJET Hybrid Supersonic 4000-X Series
Thrust – Flat-rated to 54,700 lb
Wing area – 1,800 square feet
Landing distance – 4,800 ft
Range – 6,000 nautical miles
Highest Altitude – 62,000 ft
CABIN
Length – 64 meters
Height at maximum – 2.6 meters
Width at maximum – 2.7 meters
Visiting the Paris Air Show, Mr Lugg said: We have access to revolutionary engine technology and a unique very
high speed aircraft design to make this kind of earth-shatteringly fast air travel possible, and we have a date. Our
plan is to build and fly the world ‘s first very high speed supersonic hybridaircraft by June 2021.
Propulsion for the 20-seat aircraft will come from two hybrid engines whichwill be 30 per cent more fuel efficient
than the Rolls-Royce engines used in Concorde.
It has been eight years since Concorde was retired from service and with it thesupersonic dreams of millions around
the world.
HyperMach claims its SonicStar aircraft will be so quick that traveling from London to New York will take just two
hours. A trip from New York to Sydney, meanwhile, will be cut by astaggering 75 per cent – from 20 hours on a
commercial airliner to just five hours.
It will be able to cruise at Mach 3.1, a speed made possible by S-MAGJET hybridgas turbine engine technology;
nobody has ever traveled that fast before. Its top speed, however, willbe Mach 3.6.
With relatively low fuel consumption, the Sonic Star ‘overcomes the economicand environmental challenges of
supersonic flight to revolutionize the way we travel and drive air transportation forward into the future, ‘ claims HyperMach.
By using electromagnetic currents across the fuselage to suppress the sonicboom, the plane is able to overcome
the noise regulations that constrict supersonic travel.
It has a range of 6,000 nautical miles and its 54,700 lb. thrust class S-MAGJETengine – actually two engines – is
optimized to fly the aircraft at 62,000 ft.
But it is the reduction in jet engine emissions that HyperMach believes will prove the secret of SonicStar ‘s success.
Tomorrow ‘s world: HyperMach plans to build its SonicStar engine by theend of the decade and to have the plane
itself constructed by 2025.
SonicStar will be able to cruise at Mach 3.1, a speed made possible by S-MAGJEThybrid gas turbine engine
technology.
A spokesman said: ‘The engine is a true hybrid. It generates massive electrical power on board using proprietary
integrated turbine electromagnetic generation technology to segment each engine rotating component stage electrically.
‘Every stage from bypass fans to compressor to turbine rotates independently ofthe other. ‘
This segmentation will enable the engine to change the operating speeds of itsrotating components continually
throughout the flight to respond to the changing conditions of the atmosphereand the flight and performance demands
of the aircraft. The HyperMach claims that this, along with the S-MAGJETplasma fuel combustion technology, will
result in a 40 to 50 per cent increase in the ability of engine to convert fuelto thrust. The company said such fuel
efficiency would ultimately lead to a 30 to 35 per cent reduction in fuel used at supersonic speeds.
METAL STORM
This has to be seen to be believed!!!!!!